Forbidden City

Inside Beijing, lies the Forbidden City, the location of the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the world’s largest palace and features a six meter deep moat, a ten meter high wall, five halls, seventeen palaces and 800 buildings with a total 9,999.5 rooms. Quite big then.

Tiananmen Square is just to the south of the Forbidden City and lies between two gates, the Tian’anmen to the north and the Qianmen to the south. This is of course the location of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 where hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators were massacred.

The black splodges all over the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square are the thousands or tourists who visit each day.

If you look closely, you might be able to see the Starbucks in the center of the Forbidden City (true that it exists, but not true that you can see it). Tienamen Square is just outside of the Forbidden City. Another sickening piece of commercialization is that on certain sections of the Great Wall, there are Ballys Health Fitness banners that are placed along the top.

The half-room, apparently, houses nothing more than a staircase. As the Forbidden City was on Earth, it was impossible to have 10,000 rooms, which would conflict with the number of rooms in the version found in Heaven.

By the way, millions around the nation supported the demacracy movement and went for demonstrations, not merely in Beijing. But many troubled when they got to know where the huge hunds came from and what the so-called movement leaders were doing while the poor students were camping at the Square. Because what most wanted was not to override the government yet they found themselved used by some xxx powers for that purpose.

As to those “leaders”, they have been enjoying wonderful lives with the free money and what they need to do is show up once a while, yelling against their mother country and the interest of their people.

I am a Chinese and love my country and people. I am not blind to the rotten stuff happening so I am not saying it is a perfect government at China, but if you thought 1989 would otherwise have made China different or better under those people, you are wrong.

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